focus quotes

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

I am results-oriented.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.